History of the Hume Family (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the Hume Family I write these page after the book has been printed. I am now more familiar with its errors and short comings than any one else. I make an explanation, but no apology. Every person who has contributed matter for those pages has had abundant opportunity to make corrections and changes in the proof, for every such person has had at least two complete proofs sent to him, or her, with instructions for corrections, and all corrections have been made, and the publisher has all such proof to show that such is the case. So that no blame can be attached to the author and publisher for names mis-spelled and dates not corrected. Some have, and still others will, make complaint that their lines are not full and complete. My answer to this is that every line has been printed just as written, and some names have been printed two or three times, because written that often. Some have not complied with my request for their family history, and where this could not be obtained from others it has been omitted. The way has not always been smooth. Some persons - only four I believe - have said and written some very offensive things in a rather ungentlemanly way. One man, a Kansan, became quite indignant and wrote to my secretary. Miss Maude Hume, "that a certain Dr. Hume was trying to faust a fraud upon the unsuspecting people." His grounds for such offense was that I had passed through his State, and had not gone sixty miles out of my way to see him. He who had not contributed five cents to the work and knew nothing of the matter at issue. Another, this time a Texan, lost his equilibrium over $200 subscribed (and returned), and wrote insulting things because I had dared to write the history of a branch of the family - not his own. While a lady - refined and cultured - wrote from Chicago to aense me of grossness and coarse conduct. And fourth and last, my own dear cousin and childhood playfellow. accused me of embezzling his $1.00 sent for a chart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.